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Shift has been detected in the ICT-enhanced teaching/learning, particularly from e-learning to cloud and m-learning. For education, it offers new possibilities to structure and perform learning processes. That was the reason why a case study was prepared summarizing how this process was carried out at the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), monitoring (1) learners´ knowledge reached with/without the ICT support, (2) the impact of ICT in the instruction tailored to learners´ preferences, (3) evaluating the work with virtual desktops and (4) learners´ readiness for m-learning, mainly what mobile devices they own, which of them they use for personal purposes, whether they have adequate skills developed, and whether mobile devices could be implemented in the process of instruction. Despite no statistically significant differences were detected in researches 1 and 2, learners expressed high satisfaction with using virtual desktops, wide possession of mobile devices and good skills in using them for personal activities.
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Simonova, I., Poulova, P. (2015). Cloud and m-Learning: Longitudinal Case Study of Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove. In: Nguyen, N., Trawiński, B., Kosala, R. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15705-4_40
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